Some People Using #ENDSARS Negotiations to Make Billions-Sowore

Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that some individuals have made billions of naira from the negotiations aimed at ending the ongoing nationwide #EndSARS protests.

Sowore said in a tweet on Wednesday in reaction to reports that business leaders and some social media influencers had entered into negotiations, “I will not be part of any negotiations regarding #ENDSARS, many have entered into these negotiations and come out of the other side becoming billionaires, to them it is a game! The only negotiation I will ever engage in is that of the surrender of our oppressors! #RevolutionNow.”

Female activist, Aisha Yesufu, had on Tuesday admitted that some business leaders, including the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, held a Zoom meeting with some youth influencers, asking them to put an end to the protests.

Yesufu, however, said she told the CBN governor to ask President Muhammadu Buhari to meet the demands of the protesters, instead.

Reports had it that media entrepreneur, Debola Williams, prevailed on the youth leaders to end the protests, but he has swiftly denied the allegation.

But on Wednesday, the Convener of the #EndSARS movement, Segun Awosanya aka Segalink, raised the alarm that the protests had been hijacked.

Thousands of youths across the country have in the last one week been protesting against the harassment and extrajudicial killings perpetrated mainly by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the police.

Police authorities have since disbanded the unit and renamed it Special Weapons and Tactics unit.

But inspite of this, the protests have continued with many demanding